Meaning not yet researched.
Marcello: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 265 in 2025. Its best rank was #795 in 1981.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #795 in 1981; #900 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Marcello in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#900 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1981, at #795.
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Marcello: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 265 boys in 2025. Peak: #795 in 1981 · most boys in one year: 265 (2025).
In 2025, 265 US boys were named Marcello, making it the 900th most common boys’ name of the year, up 104 places from #1,004 in 2024. That is 41 more than the 224 boys named Marcello in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #795, reached in 1981. The most boys given the name in a single year was 265, in 2025. For comparison, it was #1,197 in 2015 and #2,284 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marcello in 109 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 5 babies. In all, 6,618 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,556 babies named Marcello.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,657 US boys were named Marcello; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 265. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,446 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Marcello ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #480 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Marcel (21,123 babies since 1880), Marcelo (13,231 babies since 1880), Marcellus (9,608 babies since 1880) and Marcelino (7,476 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Marcello in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 37 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 15 | #480 | — |
| Florida | 32 | #551 | #1,242 |
| New Jersey | 13 | #561 | #569 |
| Nevada | 5 | #566 | — |
| Texas | 44 | #674 | #1,233 |
| Oregon | 5 | #677 | — |
| California | 37 | #726 | #1,003 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #749 | — |
| Washington | 8 | #776 | — |
| New York | 18 | #788 | #738 |
| Virginia | 8 | #849 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #892 | #1,001 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,202 | #819 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,230 | #1,270 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 265 | #900 |
| 2024 | — | — | 224 | #1,004 |
| 2023 | — | — | 146 | #1,312 |
| 2022 | — | — | 142 | #1,328 |
| 2021 | — | — | 140 | #1,330 |
| 2020 | — | — | 166 | #1,161 |
| 2019 | — | — | 137 | #1,332 |
| 2018 | — | — | 140 | #1,304 |
| 2017 | — | — | 143 | #1,275 |
| 2016 | — | — | 154 | #1,219 |
| 2015 | — | — | 155 | #1,197 |
| 2014 | — | — | 168 | #1,135 |
| 2013 | — | — | 173 | #1,082 |
| 2012 | — | — | 143 | #1,240 |
| 2011 | — | — | 170 | #1,095 |
| 2010 | — | — | 173 | #1,106 |
| 2009 | — | — | 180 | #1,054 |
| 2008 | — | — | 190 | #1,013 |
| 2007 | — | — | 182 | #1,035 |
| 2006 | — | — | 164 | #1,080 |
| 2005 | — | — | 132 | #1,207 |
| 2004 | — | — | 126 | #1,212 |
| 2003 | — | — | 106 | #1,315 |
| 2002 | — | — | 105 | #1,292 |
| 2001 | — | — | 98 | #1,334 |
| 2000 | — | — | 112 | #1,212 |
| 1999 | — | — | 89 | #1,350 |
| 1998 | — | — | 90 | #1,330 |
| 1997 | — | — | 97 | #1,219 |
| 1996 | — | — | 84 | #1,311 |
| 1995 | — | — | 74 | #1,374 |
| 1994 | — | — | 47 | #1,843 |
| 1993 | — | — | 60 | #1,533 |
| 1992 | — | — | 47 | #1,793 |
| 1991 | — | — | 51 | #1,639 |
| 1990 | — | — | 58 | #1,494 |
| 1989 | — | — | 51 | #1,584 |
| 1988 | — | — | 47 | #1,570 |
| 1987 | — | — | 48 | #1,496 |
| 1986 | — | — | 52 | #1,372 |
| 1985 | — | — | 57 | #1,272 |
| 1984 | — | — | 50 | #1,340 |
| 1983 | — | — | 54 | #1,260 |
| 1982 | — | — | 86 | #974 |
| 1981 | — | — | 122 | #795 |
| 1980 | — | — | 52 | #1,303 |
| 1979 | — | — | 45 | #1,402 |
| 1978 | — | — | 51 | #1,267 |
| 1977 | — | — | 30 | #1,766 |
| 1976 | — | — | 40 | #1,423 |
| 1975 | — | — | 52 | #1,174 |
| 1974 | — | — | 50 | #1,177 |
| 1973 | — | — | 74 | #938 |
| 1972 | — | — | 49 | #1,171 |
| 1971 | — | — | 58 | #1,076 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,786 | 57 | #1,088 |
| 1969 | — | — | 61 | #988 |
| 1968 | — | — | 42 | #1,177 |
| 1967 | — | — | 35 | #1,282 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,207 | 34 | #1,316 |
| 1965 | — | — | 50 | #1,050 |
| 1964 | — | — | 20 | #1,832 |
| 1963 | — | — | 30 | #1,447 |
| 1962 | — | — | 19 | #1,881 |
| 1961 | — | — | 13 | #2,385 |
| 1960 | — | — | 13 | #2,390 |
| 1959 | — | — | 13 | #2,369 |
| 1958 | — | — | 10 | #2,748 |
| 1957 | — | — | 6 | #3,819 |
| 1956 | — | — | 11 | #2,585 |
| 1954 | — | — | 16 | #2,017 |
| 1953 | — | — | 11 | #2,480 |
| 1952 | — | — | 16 | #1,987 |
| 1951 | — | — | 11 | #2,452 |
| 1950 | — | — | 12 | #2,284 |
| 1948 | — | — | 10 | #2,557 |
| 1947 | — | — | 5 | #4,065 |
| 1946 | — | — | 15 | #1,926 |
| 1945 | — | — | 9 | #2,514 |
| 1943 | — | — | 7 | #3,129 |
| 1942 | — | — | 8 | #2,855 |
| 1940 | — | — | 6 | #3,338 |
| 1939 | — | — | 5 | #3,791 |
| 1938 | — | — | 13 | #2,057 |
| 1937 | — | — | 6 | #3,383 |
| 1936 | — | — | 10 | #2,397 |
| 1935 | — | — | 9 | #2,646 |
| 1934 | — | — | 7 | #3,177 |
| 1933 | — | — | 8 | #2,902 |
| 1932 | — | — | 16 | #1,892 |
| 1931 | — | — | 15 | #1,975 |
| 1930 | — | — | 5 | #4,343 |
| 1929 | — | — | 13 | #2,274 |
| 1928 | — | — | 11 | #2,592 |
| 1927 | — | — | 17 | #2,002 |
| 1926 | — | — | 11 | #2,671 |
| 1925 | — | — | 12 | #2,538 |
| 1924 | — | — | 11 | #2,767 |
| 1923 | — | — | 16 | #2,088 |
| 1922 | — | — | 14 | #2,302 |
| 1921 | — | — | 11 | #2,737 |
| 1920 | — | — | 9 | #3,118 |
| 1919 | — | — | 8 | #3,284 |
| 1918 | — | — | 8 | #3,276 |
| 1917 | — | — | 7 | #3,438 |
| 1916 | — | — | 9 | #2,854 |
| 1915 | — | — | 7 | #3,268 |
| 1914 | — | — | 6 | #3,125 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,774 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).